Blog tagged as agentic AI

Pega's fix for runaway AI costs: stop the agents from thinking at runtime

06.13.26 11:55 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

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At its PegaWorld conference in Las Vegas on June 8, 2026, Pegasystems announced Pega Infinity 26, which it says will be available in Q3 2026. The principal change is commercial: Pega is moving away from per-token pricing for its AI agents toward a flat charge per completed "case," ...

Zendesk's Specialist Bet Is the Right One; and Here's What Would Make It a Moat

05.22.26 8:40 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

If you only read the press releases, Zendesk Relate 2026 told a strong, clean story. The era of the chatbot is over. Welcome the Autonomous Service Workforce. Resolution replaces deflection. Outcome-based pricing is the new norm. Specialization beats generalist orchestration.

That’s strong. Really st...

The AI Content Trap: Multiplying Mediocrity at Scale

05.06.26 9:43 AM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

The AI Content Trap: Multiplying Mediocrity at Scale

Marketing has always suffered from a volume addiction; however, the advent of generative AI has turned a bad habit into a terminal condition. In the recent discussion with Volker Hildebrand in our CRMKonvo, we explored the uncomfortable reality tha...

SAP Draws a Perimeter around Agentic AI and What That Means for the Rest of US

04.29.26 3:08 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

The most consequential enterprise AI governance document published this year arrived in late April with surprisingly little fanfare. SAP's updated API Policy, version 4/2026, is a short document in plain English. The clause that is most interesting is Section 2.2.2. It restricts how autonomous and g...

The Agent Wars Are Over. The Substrate Wars Just Started

04.19.26 4:27 PM - By Thomas Wieberneit - Comment(s)

Three titan announcements in two weeks reveal what enterprise software vendors are actually fighting over in 2026, and it is not agents.

If you have been tracking enterprise AI announcements through 2025, you have been watching a race about agent counts. How many prebuilt agents. How many industry-sp...

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